Classes 2017

Explorations in Double TwillTwo-hour lecture at the Complex Weavers Southeast Gathering. June 17-18, 2017, at the Yadkin Valley Fiber Room. For more information on the Gathering, click on above link.

Spin Your Own YarnJan. 17 - Mar. 13. Learn to use the simple drop spindle to spin your own woolen yarn for knitting, crochet, or weaving. This hand tool of prehistoric origin is inexpensive, portable, and easy to use. Create a mid-weight yarn suitable for garments, accessories, and household items. Pack all your spinning supplies in a lunchbag-sized tote and take it with you on vacation! Click on Winter Brochure 2017.

Books

The Woven Pixel: Designing for Jacquard and Dobby Looms Using Photoshop®Co-authored by Alice Schlein and Bhakti Ziek. 362 pages, many illustrations. Now available for free download on handweaving.net. The accompanying CD with 1400 pattern presets is not included with the free download, but may be purchased separately. Email me at aschlein[at]att[dot]net for more information.

Network Drafting: An IntroductionBy Alice Schlein. Break away from the block. Curves for your dobby loom. Originally published in 1994, now available as print-on-demand from www.lulu.com.

Monographs

Lampas for Shaft LoomsClass notes from Complex Weavers Seminars 2016, newly revised and formatted, in pdf form for download. A review of methods for designing your own lampas fabrics for treadle looms, table looms, and dobbies, eight shafts and above. Over 90 color photos of actual fabrics with drafts. Includes info on pickup lampas and a lampas bibliography. View on a computer, or print out one copy for your own use. USD$21. via PayPal. Email aschlein[at]att[dot]net for ordering info.

A Crepe Is Not Just a Pancake52 pages of text, b&w and color diagrams, and drafts for multishaft tradle & dobby looms. Many color photos of actual cloth. Methods for drafting your own crepe weaves. Annotated bibliography. Pdf available for immediate download. $21. USD. Payment by PayPal. Email me at aschlein[at]att[dot]net for payment instructions.

Echo Weave Based on the 1996 article in Weaver's, Issue 32. With brand new diagrams and high resolution scans of original fabrics. Pdf available for immediate download. $7. USD. Payment by PayPal. Email me at aschlein[at]att[dot]net for payment instructions.

April 20, 2015

Conference Wrap-up (Short Version)

Home again. SE Fiber Forum was in every way a great conference. Saw wonderful old friends, heard a fine keynote address by Kay Faulkner — she gave a design-themed travelogue with countless weaving inspirations, in a genial, well organized manner — attended an efficiently run fashion show, took a tour of other studios for more good ideas, cruised the vendor area while somehow keeping my fiber lust in check, and last but not least took a fabulous workshop with the inimitable John Mullarkey. If you ever have an opportunity to study with John, run, do not walk, to sign up. You will gain a new appreciation of tablet weaving from a master teacher.

Here's a snapshot of John explaining the fine points of S- and Z-threading. Got it?

Back in my home studio, I was able to complete the sleying of the reed, despite multiple phone warnings from the National Weather Service regarding a violent hailstorm coming through the region (it came and it went.) Here are the first few inches, before I quit for the day. This lampas warp is threaded in blocks, and I'll be exploring a few structure variations in the primary warp. Click to enlarge.

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Conference Wrap-up (Short Version)

Home again. SE Fiber Forum was in every way a great conference. Saw wonderful old friends, heard a fine keynote address by Kay Faulkner — she gave a design-themed travelogue with countless weaving inspirations, in a genial, well organized manner — attended an efficiently run fashion show, took a tour of other studios for more good ideas, cruised the vendor area while somehow keeping my fiber lust in check, and last but not least took a fabulous workshop with the inimitable John Mullarkey. If you ever have an opportunity to study with John, run, do not walk, to sign up. You will gain a new appreciation of tablet weaving from a master teacher.

Here's a snapshot of John explaining the fine points of S- and Z-threading. Got it?

Back in my home studio, I was able to complete the sleying of the reed, despite multiple phone warnings from the National Weather Service regarding a violent hailstorm coming through the region (it came and it went.) Here are the first few inches, before I quit for the day. This lampas warp is threaded in blocks, and I'll be exploring a few structure variations in the primary warp. Click to enlarge.